When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
I believe health care is a civil right.
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.
I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
